Mark Twain Project Online applies innovative technology to more than four decades' worth of archival research by expert editors at the Mark Twain Project. It offers unfettered, intuitive access to reliable texts, accurate and exhaustive notes, and the most recently discovered letters and documents.

Its ultimate purpose is to produce a digital critical edition, fully annotated, of everything Mark Twain wrote. MTPO is produced by the Mark Twain Papers and Project of The Bancroft Library in collaboration with the University of California Press; the site is hosted by UC Berkeley's Library Systems Office. During 2005–8 the California Digital Library collaborated in MTPO's creation and initial development.

In April 2009, the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions designated MTPO an "Approved Edition," and in 2015, MTP was honored as part of NEH@50.

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Letters

“Damnation, (if you will allow the expression,) get up & take a turn around the block & let the sentiment blow off you…” From SLC to William Bowen, 31 Aug 1876

More than 31,000 catalog records, and more than 3,200 edited letters written 1853–1882.

Writings

“You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,’ but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.” From Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Full texts and scholarly apparatuses of sixteen volumes in the Mark Twain Project edition published between 1967 and 2015.